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JD Vance says Big Tech has "too much power"
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You don't understand. This is tech tribal war.
"Big Tech" is Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta. Companies which were fully allied with the Democrats, and which were king of the tech hill until now.
Musk, Thiel and Ellison (Tesla, Palantir and Oracle) are allied with Trump. Lets call them "Tech B".
Vance is doing code speak for: Tech B is gonna break Big Tech up and take top spot.
And Big Tech knows this, which is why they are scrambling to get into Trumps good graces and trying to get Trump on their side.
They have more money and influence right now and they are trying to leverage that to keep top spot.
And Trump is just letting the two teams bid up each other for his favour.
Yeah, except there have been defections from Big Tech to Tech B, the prime example being Meta. Zuckerbot has gone and kissed the ring, and has shifted Meta to push more rightwing lies. And OpenAI has been Musk-adjacent from its start, so I'm not sure where it should go. And I'd use Xitter as the Musk example rather than Tesla, since Tesla's primarily a carmaker, not a tech company, despite its doing clever things with batteries now and then.
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